This was my last post on @confusedpasty's thread, reposted here:
@fairadvocate
I found out some months ago that transgender womens brains or perceptions tend to be fairly aligned with women in general when it comes to self perception and appearance.
I hate to further derail this thread, but this is not true.
Differences in transwomen's brains have been found, but they do not align neatly with women's or men's brains.
"Our results support the hypothesis that brain structure in TW differs from brain structure of their biological sex (male) as well as their perceived gender (female)."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0666-3
However, studies like this compare trans people's brains with those of heterosexual people. This is an important drawback, because differences in the brains of heterosexual and homosexual people have been observed.
The following study compared the brains of trans people with a set of non-transpeople that included both heterosexual people and homosexual people.
"After controlling for sexual orientation, the transgender groups showed sex-typical FA-values. The only exception was the right inferior fronto-occipital tract, connecting parietal and frontal brain areas that mediate own body perception. Our findings suggest that the neuroanatomical signature of transgenderism is related to brain areas processing the perception of self and body ownership,"
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17352-8